Apparatus for measuring the supply of steam from a boiler.



No. 874,676]. PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

, A I M. GEHRB. I APPARATUS FOB. MEASURING THE SUPPLY OF STEAM FROM A BOILER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. B, 1905.

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\ .i. v Application filed February 5.33 11). Eerie! Em 24 M333,

Jo all whom may toncern: I

Be it lmown elm: 1, MAX GEHRE, of Bis merolistmsse 71, B11SS6ll0If-H8.-tll, inl'llie Empire of Gern'iany, a, sulojeol, of the Em Germany, .liave invented certain new and useiul improvements in Apparatus for M the Supply of Siemn Tom a Boiler; ml 1 do hereby declare the heture of invention and in What in sinner the some is lo be poiowned to be particularly clescribed eod ascertained in end by the following; steoeinen'b. This invention to epperatus of the M oeii. in. the specification of Letters 213.78 ofiilfl l and is more per e amount of steal'n raised and exaoe load upon the unit of heating suriuoe of steam genemtoisu liereioiore app-eyelinehos been provided for meoeuii the steam delivered from generators, but no epperebus known which iiidioates or reoori'ls t. e volume of steoiii per o heating surface, that is to say, tl1- queuing of steam 1'' load reduced to the unit iesitiog suifieoe.

indzomiog an K Jnd'iiie ere l'filllZf-Kl with W. ooluini'is on. the ends, of a. merw. lri'steii the (li er I o Tl a pr. awn provides en iniprove apparatus ElllS kind in which, i. oi Zlie divided weterolmiiiber olesorilxed the spee'licotion for eoiistent level. of water columns two water chambers in any eoi' ve eniposition, or a horis-zontolly-- y tribe, or horizontal oopcer-elzemleer eomlvioeel io 03., situated at the Fig. 2 deem} VMEW oi the mercury the steam pipe oi conduit, 6

e. 'gneil for use in ascertaining 0?" illusic-aLa-ss an eiiongemen'lv having le'vioe in gold \CGLSdUl'i having fomied, i deoi the oonomotezl poesege 0. e, e are steam pip-es leeqlizig Tom each side of the device b so the pressure chambers m and nebove the Water-levels i11- -lae weteomnks 1c, is, and c, c, are weerbee leading to the mercury ind'ieaeor Tlie latte? 1e fitted with an extemel eightqless o and internal sighbgless' 1* containing the in visible memory column 6 Q0 controlled by the varying PIBSSUYG in the pipe a. h is a revolving diagram-.1 or scaleeerd' bearing the indications of various \veigiiis calculated on time and heating susrface. In order to obviate very quick wiria- '65 iions of ehe nierouiy oolumn by reason of sudden "blows due to teinoorery steem supply, ii; is advantageous 0 form woontiootion s in the interior of the eight gless 1', es indiseized in 2, and so clis oosecl as to prevent 79 it beoom ing clogged with the ilnpui'ities. from the boiler which impurities usually collect on o. uriaoe oi the mercury column in the i fmiry-ohember o.

Having now oortioularlydescribed and asi 1 fifi lai' lllid me not of my said inventionand 111 What manner the some 18 to be per 1. An ep iemtus oi the ehamoter described, comprising a mercury column, 5; steam oon- 8o duii, means inter gosecl in said conduit for contracting; the elieretltirough, a plumlii-y of water oloeiiieliers, means for estoblisl'iing oozizmui' iootioiibetween one of said eliemliei's end one end of ihe mercury ool- 35 umn, means for es'mbliehing oommunioetion between the otl'iei' of said chambers and the olxher and of the mercury column, means for .szeblisliing communication. between one of said chambers and one side of said. contmo ged pC-I'iJiOD of the througl itlie o0ndull, mews for es oiieliing oon'imzmioetion ween she echo? of mid. chambers and the i1 2? N siiiei ooiitmoted portion of the thee-ugh the ooni'lait, and an. edjusie5 mi ed in operative relation with re'speot to aid. mercury column.

"12. An operates of the who-meter described, oompi'ieia mercury column, a steam eoncluit, means interposed in said conduit for contracting the tliere'tlii'ougli, o plurality of lei eliomlie'rs, means for estab iislimg eomi'minioetion bet-Ween one of said eliembei's and one end 0'? the mercury ooiumn, means for estefjalishin oo'mmilnioation the other side of said contracted portion of between the other of said 0 embers and the the-passage through the conduit. 10 other end offlie mercury column, means for In witness whereof, I subscribe my signaesteblishing communication befiween one of ture, in the presence of two witnesses.

said chambers and one side of said contract MAX GEE-IRE. ed p'o1 tion ofiijthe passage through the coni Witnesses:

dint, andmee'ns ior establishing commumca- WILLIAM EssENWEIN,

tion betwteen'the other of soid chambers and PETER LIEBER. 

